May the farce be with you

The Conservative government’s proposed “safety” measures to prevent oil tanker spills off the B.C. coast, are nothing more than “window dressing for the farce” as long as most if not all of the tankers involved have “paper thin” hullls built on the cheap (accidents waiting to happen) and are registered in jurisdictions of “limited liability” where prosecution for any spill is problematic at best.

But what these “safety” measures definitely do show is Stephen Harper’s fundamental “respect” for one of our most precious resources — the B.C. coastline and its fragile ecosystem